er, I was saving my money for smissmas
I completed both Mannhatten missions in Mann Up mode and now off to complete Rottenburg. If anyone wants to play Mann Up with me send a message on Steam.
valve Wrote:"Head" and "Misc" slots for player loadouts have been converted to Cosmetic slots. All items that were previously Head- or Misc-slot-specific can now be equipped in any Cosmetic slot.
Interesting, this half fulfils my wish!
Oh god the short circuit and diamondback are ridiculous now. Engineers can completely shut out soldiers and demomen with little effort and dominate them. I lobbed four grenades at an engineer and he zapped all four of them, none hit him and spy can get free diamondback crits from backstabbing bonk scouts.
(12-21-2013, 10:15 AM)Xtreme2damax Wrote: [ -> ]Oh god the short circuit and diamondback are ridiculous now. Engineers can completely shut out soldiers and demomen with little effort and dominate them. I lobbed four grenades at an engineer and he zapped all four of them, none hit him and spy can get free diamondback crits from backstabbing bonk scouts.
The Short Circuit has always been like this. I usually use it when I'm nesting.
But backstabbing bonked scouts should be a bug that should soon be fixed ( i hope)
I don't know if you realized this but the short circuit was buffed with yesterdays update. Yeah it could destroy projectiles before but it had a slow firing rate, now it has a minigun like firing rate that does 2 damage per second, can completely shut out soldiers and demos.
I know. It was actually useful before the update too. Just had to get the shot timed perfectly.
Yeah but before it worked more like a Pyros airblast, now it works like a projectile destroying minigun making it far too easy to destroy projectiles and shut out soldiers and demomen. If an engineer has a short circuit now it is pretty much impossible to take out sentry nests with soldier or demoman and kill the engineer.
@Anti-Ultimate
I disagree. It was fairly useless before the update. Nobody used it because repairing your structures was more effective at keeping them alive due to the slow speed, limited effectiveness, and high ammo cost of the short circuit. Sticky clusterss being the only exception to this due to burst damage. Not to mention the wrangler is extremely useful and you have to give that up to equip it.
Haven't tried out the new short circuit but I can tell just from reading the changelog that the diamondback is definitely going to be OP now. Giving crits for backstabs is insane. They need to cut the damage in half if they're going to do that. At the moment it deals 2.55x revolver damage with a crit. Bring that down to 1.5x and it might be balanced.
All of the other changes are good though.
I always used it when nesting though. It was pretty useful for the distant enemy soldier spamming rockets at you. IF you were near your dispenser it was still fairly good. More or less, this update made it even more powerful.